Tim Cahill may face FIFA’s investigation for his goal celebration in the World Cup play-off against Syria on Wednesday, which appeared to be\u00a0a \u201csponsored\u201d celebration.<\/p>\n
The striker made a “T” sign after scoring the\u00a0109th-minute header to send the Socceroos through to an intercontinental playoff with Honduras. He is reportedly the\u00a0new brand ambassador of a Byron Bay-based travel company.<\/p>\n
After the match, the travel company has reportedly asked their followers<\/a>\u00a0if they had seen the 37-year-old’s celebration, calling it the “doing the… ‘T'”. Cahill replied the message with a string of emojis. However, the post has since been deleted, according to reports.<\/p>\n In an interview with BBC Sport<\/a>, FIFA said that it was “reviewing and analyzing the reports from the referees and the match commissioners for all matches in FIFA competitions”.<\/p>\n The world football governing body added that “any events which require further attention may be communicated accordingly”.<\/p>\n Meanwhile,\u00a0Football Federation Australia (FFA) said it would not take action against the former Everton striker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tim Cahill may face FIFA’s investigation for his goal celebration in the World Cup play-off against Syria on Wednesday, which appeared to be\u00a0a \u201csponsored\u201d celebration. The striker made a “T” sign after scoring the\u00a0109th-minute header to send the Socceroos through to an intercontinental playoff with Honduras. He is reportedly the\u00a0new brand ambassador of a Byron Bay-based travel company. After the match, the travel company has reportedly asked their followers\u00a0if they had seen the 37-year-old’s celebration, calling it the “doing the… ‘T’”. Cahill replied the message with a string of emojis. However, the post has since been deleted, according to reports. In an interview with BBC Sport, FIFA said that it … Continue reading “Tim Cahill may face FIFA’s investigation for \u201csponsored\u201d celebration”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[768,1009,467,581,332],"class_list":["post-7897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fifa","tag-slider-australia","tag-socceroos","tag-syria","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}